Category Archives: Dynamics CRM 2015

Calendars, Holiday and Customer Service Scheduling in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 SP1

In a Customer – Vendor relationship, customer service is the most important aspect. With Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Service Pack 1 or Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Spring ’14, there have been many enhancements around service and we have discussed them in various articles on this blog. We can setup SLA’s for our customer service management,… Read More »

System Customizer role does not allow modifying Web Resources in Dynamics CRM 2013

Introduction: Recently, we came across a situation where we were only assigned System Customizer Role in a client environment to give dev access to the organization customizations. It was our understanding all along that System Customizer role is provided to developers for customizing the system and System Administrator being the other role that provided complete… Read More »

Unable to Configure Dynamics CRM Outlook Client for Org Configured for IFD Access

Introduction: Configuring Outlook Client usually involved making sure the regular stuff was done i.e.: Adding the server url to trusted sites. Checking whether the machine time matches the server time. Able to access Dynamics CRM through Web Client. Whether Windows Identity foundation was installed. Credentials cache cleared (Note: You can clear the credentials by going to the control… Read More »

Duplicate Detection is back in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Spring Release

How good were the old days of CRM 2011 that even at the point of creation of records you were notified on the entity form itself that the particular record is a duplicate record and hence the data duplication was reduced to a considerable amount. But suddenly in CRM 2013 Duplicate Detection was removed partially i.e.,… Read More »

Server-based SharePoint integration for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Introduction: With the Spring Release of CRM 2013, we now also have Server-side sync available for Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Sharepoint Online. Yes it did support Sharepoint integration in the earlier release too but as the name suggests Server-side synchronization will now handle automatic authentication between CRM and Sharepoint. The credentials that you used to… Read More »

Entitlements in Dynamics CRM 2013 Spring release

Introduction: Entitlements is a new concept introduced in CRM 2013 Spring release and it is the same concept of Contracts with advanced capabilities which were not available in Contract and had limitation in the past. It supports Allocation Types of Cases and Hours. You have the entitlement validity dates within which the entitlements are applicable.… Read More »